Six countries boast a 100% literacy rate. Which of these countries makes the list?

William Forbes, You are misinformed on so many counts. The fault is not with Democrats. The Dems are pro-education as evidenced by Bernie Sanders' initiatives for a free college education for all Americans. I don't know what "standing for the anthem" has to do with this question, but the US does not spend as much per student on education as other countries do, which is why we lag in the literacy standings. In fact, Republicans don't value education very highly at all. They would rather cut spending on education, renewable energy investment and research, infrastructure, healthcare, Social Security, and deny women, immigrants, blacks, and gays their rights, all the while cutting taxes for the very, very rich. If they did care about education, we wouldn't have the voucher school queen, Betsy DeVos, as Secretary of Education! We wouldn't be asking underpaid teachers to take a 20% pay cut or expect them to spend part of their own meager salaries to buy supplies for their students in our underfunded schools. Face it; we are living in a plutocracy. Democracy is dead. Even 3 million more votes cannot give the election to a Democrat, thanks to the malicious gerrymandering practices of Republicans. The rich are increasing their wealth while the middle class shrinks. When the middle class thrives, so does the economy and in turn, the country in general. When Republicans cease giving the key to the henhouse to foxy billionaires and begin focusing on bettering the welfare of everyone, then and only then will we be able to focus on education and pull up our world standings. It's interesting that you prefer to eliminate cities that lower our rating to improve the rating, rather than insist that the problems causing educational failures be addressed. Very Republican of you. Let's fudge the figures and do nothing because, well... those people. Their problems are not ours!

Sometimes it physically hurts for me to hold in my sarcastic comments.

Commiserate is a verb. It whould read "commensurate with age and or grade." Are the administrators of this site as illiterate as some of the question submitters?

Well said Billyboy15.

It is extremely hard to believe any country has a 100% rate.

billyboy915, I agree with you.

billyboy915, I don't see that happening in the next several years.

billyboy915, I agree with you, I don't see that changing in the next several years with the POTUS currectly in office.

billyboy915, I absolutely agree with you. I don't see that happening in the next several years with our POTUS, ugh

A date stamp would have been nice when this question was set seven years ago, it is now 2025 and some different countries have made the list, one being Cuba.

billyboy915, Written beautifully in 2018, but no less true in 2025.

billyboy915, What do you suppose about education decisions for the states being returned to the states in 2025? Do you think that will help the education system? Thank you, Christine, James' wife

Larry Jones, I was wondering if anyone else would notice that, so I checked if it was copied from the reference source. Perhaps, we should commiserate that the people in many nations are not able to read and write at a level commensurate with the age or grade. I do not know if anyone reviewed this question. It is well-written other than substituting that word. Some authors say they have corrected the submission. Others say submissions that need corrections are never able to be published? Thank you, Christine, James' wife

robert, I doubt it. They may say they do, but that doesn't make it true.

This suggests we should be looking to Andorra, Finland, Norway,,Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and Denmark when looking for education reforms.

Puppermom, am should be in that sentence.🙃

Mark Snyder, I with you!

Misleading, Cuba also has a 100% literacy rate.

Countries selected to confuse. I am very angry with answers deliberately confusing.